“…[I] said to myself, that they’re [public baths] like a club and they have family environment - but one Chinese, a homosexual, had opened my eyes to the truth.

- The majority goes there to wash, - he said. - But it is also a good place if you want to get acquainted with a guy and do some things with him.
- What kind of things?
My interlocutor calmly explained:
- Once, when I was in Sin Hua Yuan, I saw two men in a private room. One held a member of the other in the mouth. Such things.

from “To the Ends of the Earth” by Paul Theroux

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